1st Edition

State Crime and Resistance

Edited By Elizabeth Stanley, Jude McCulloch Copyright 2012
256 Pages 2 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

256 Pages 2 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

256 Pages 2 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

Within criminology ‘the state’ is often ignored as an active participant, or represented as a neutral force. While state crime studies have proliferated, criminologists have not paid attention to the history and impact of resistance to state crime. This book recognises that crimes of the state are far more serious and harmful than crimes committed by individuals, and considers how such... Read more

1. Introduction - Resistance to State Crime, Elizabeth Stanley and Jude McCulloch  2. Resisting State Crime as a Criminological Project in the Context of the Arab Spring, David O. Friedrichs  3. Civil Society, Resistance and State Crime, Penny Green and Tony Ward  4. Public Criminology and the Responsibility to Speak in the Prophetic Voice Concerning Global Warming, Ronald C. Kramer  5. The Great Escape: Refugees, Detention and Resistance, Michael Grewcock  6. The Politics of State Crime and Resistance: Self Determination in Sri Lanka, Suthaharen Nadarajah and Victoria Sentas  7. Resistance to state-corporate crimes in West Papua, Elizabeth Stanley  8. The Race to Defraud: State Crime and the Immiseration of Indigenous People, Chris Cunneen  9. 'Frameworks of Resistance': Challenging the UK's securitization agenda, Christina Pantazis and Simon Pemberton  10. Environmental Activism and Resistance to State-Corporate Crime, Rob White  11. Witnessing the Gorgon: Remarks on Normative Visuality in Confronting State Crime, Wayne Morrison  12. Music as Resistance to State Crime and Violence, David Kauzlarich  13. Justice and Resistance through Community Legal Centres, Jude McCulloch and Megan Blair  14. Hardening the Rule of Law and Asylum Seekers: Exporting Risk and the Judicial Censure of State Legality, Sharon Pickering and Leanne Weber  15. A Global Resistant Movement? From Human Rights to International Criminal Justice, Dawn L Rothe  16The Master's Tools: Can Supranational Law Confront Crimes of Powerful States?, Raymond Michalowski  17. Beyond State Crime, Jude McCulloch and Elizabeth Stanley.

Biography

Elizabeth Stanley is a Senior Lecturer at the School of Social and Cultural Studies at the Victoria University of Wellington, NZ. Jude McCulloch is Professor of Criminology at Monash University, Australia.

'...This book is the first to offer an introduction to the important topic of resisting state crime. Taking on an unexplored topic within the state crime literature, this edited volume should be considered a required foundational text for all those, students and scholars alike, wanting to better understand the dynamics between state and resistance.'Victoria E. Collins, PhD. Assistant Professor, School of Justice Studies, Eastern Kentucky University